FERNDALE -- A day after county narcotic officers raided the Clinical Relief medical marijuana dispensary with guns drawn, office manager Barbara Agro sat in front of the business in a chair dealing with patients who showed up to buy pot.

The man, who would not give his name and is a registered patient, threw up his arthritic hands in frustration.

"What am I supposed to do now?" he asked. "They just passed the law that says (medical marijuana) is OK. I don't get it."

But officials from the Oakland County Sheriff's office say their Narcotic Enforcement Team arrested a total of 15 people at various locations Wednesday evening on allegations of violating the state's medical marijuana laws. At least three people from Clinical Relief, on Hilton just north of Eight Mile, were in police custody Thursday. Police also raided Everybody's Cafe in Waterford where a medical marijuana compassion club meets and several private homes.

Barbara Agro works at the Ferndale clinic with her husband, Sal, and her son Nick is one of the co-owners along with Matthew Curtis and Ryan Richmond.

"We had three patients here and seven employees when they raided us," Agro said. "They made everybody get on the floor. They also raided my house in Lake Orion where my husband and I had 16 (marijuana) plants. They made a real mess."

Agro is a former dispatcher for the Lake Orion Police Department who took a leave of absence to work at the clinic. She and her husband are licensed caregivers and medical marijuana users, she said. Under the state's medical marijuana law a caregiver can have up to 12 pot plants each for a maximum of six patients. If a caregiver is also a licensed patient they can have an additional 12 plants.

"Some of the officers who raided us were wearing masks," she said. "They came in and took all our computers, our phones, the patients' files and some marijuana. The ACLU is going to have a field day. Patient records are supposed to be protected by law."

Richmond said police took a total of about 6 ounces of marijuana from the clinic and raided his Royal Oak house where they seized TVs, computers, cash and a couple of hunting rifles in the basement. There was no marijuana at his house, he said.

"I believe we are a test case for law enforcement and prosecutors," Richmond said. "We only sell to licensed patients. But we are seeing the reality of how the world works."

Clinical Relief, 362 Hilton, opened in June shortly before the Ferndale City Council enacted a medical marijuana moratorium. The clinic was grandfathered and the council on Monday passed an ordinance that allows medical marijuana businesses to operate in light and heavy industrial districts. The pot businesses are also allowed in the office district as long as marijuana growing operations occupy less than 20 percent of their space.

Richmond said Clinical Relief prohibits the use of marijuana on the premises and also has days when doctors meet to consult with patients. Anyone who seeks to buy marijuana at the clinic without a state-issued patient ID is turned away, he said.

"The police took well over 1,000 patient files," he said. "Abut 80 percent of our patients request that we not share their information with law enforcement."

Clinical Relief previously sold more than a dozen varieties of marijuana for prices ranging from $500 to $700 an ounce. They also sold smaller doses in the form of bottled pop, candy bars, suckers and baked goods for up to $15 each.

Ferndale Police have not been instructed to close the city's only medical marijuana dispensary following Wednesday's raid, said Police Chief Timothy Collins.

"There are no prohibitions on them being open," he said. "That may change, but we have received no directives to that effect."

Collins toured the Clinical Relief facility back in June. Mayor Craig Covey and other officials have been through the 2,500 square-foot facility since then.

Collins said the state medical marijuana law is unclear on many issues. Many cities are grappling with how to deal with marijuana businesses in their communities. Some like Royal Oak and Hazel Park have instituted moratoriums on the businesses while they study the law. Others communities like Livonia and Birmingham have banned marijuana businesses on the grounds that pot is still prohibited under federal law, which typically supersedes state laws.

In Hazel Park, which enacted a moratorium on pot businesses earlier this month, City Manager Ed Klobucher said the police raids at marijuana facilities may ultimately serve the clarify the state medical marijuana law.

"We may finally get some guidance from the courts on what is and what isn't allowed with this law," he said. "The law as it stands is full of ambiguities."